On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
>>>  Seems like an ideal situation for receiving mailing list mail.
>>> All of that is "public" anyway, and targetted advertising is somewhat
>> 
>> No it is not. The piclist is not archived in public.
>
> Um.  Sure.  IIRC, at least one archive requires password/username of
> piclist/piclist, while the official archive requires an ID from piclist.com
> that doesn't have "much" in the way of verification.

However access is so slow that only a rock would have the patience to mine 
it (with all due respect to the maintainer who is doing a great job).

> And I'm on many lists/groups that are MORE public than piclist (and only
> a couple that are less public, not counting "work.")  I don't see why I
> shouldn't send all by yahoo group mail to gmail, for instance, especally
> since yahoo is increasingly annoying the their LACK of good archiving
> tools for their groups.  Whatever, it's worth an experiment.

Imho, with spam a burgeoining industry and making out more than 60% of the 
email I get (I get list digests), I am thinking, how could it possibly 
become worse (and I know I will regret having said this immediately or 
within reasonable time).

>>> (or none of the free "trade magazines" would survive.  Shucks,
>>> the ads are sometimes the best part.)
>> 
>> You mean there are magazines with not only ads in them ? Where ?
>
> I'm rather fond of EETimes.  They seem noticably less "Rah! Rah!
> Advertisers!" than most others.

Thanks, I will look at this when I can.

Peter
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